The Twin Star Earthrounder tour

MooCubeNZ · May 21, 2025, 11:51pm

Hello everyone,

I’m starting an adventure: flying all the way around the world and back to New Zealand, using Neofly to generate missions and select destinations along the way.

I’ll be using real-world weather, and no time acceleration whatsoever.
To keep things as realistic as possible, I plan to land at official ports of entry whenever crossing into new countries. I’ll also be utilising BeyondATC for air traffic control and Bushtalk radio to point out points of interest along the way.

All flights will be logged in FSHub to maintain a detailed record of the journey. Instead of posting here after every flight leg, I’ll share updates after reaching key milestones, which may include several legs at a time.

The goal is to fly the missions generated by Neofly, earn money, and gradually rent or purchase new aircraft as the journey progresses. For the most part, however, I’ll be flying the DA42 for the majority of this trip.

I’m looking forward to the challenge and will be sharing my progress here.
Any advice, mission suggestions, or words of encouragement are very welcome!

PS: I have a request for a repaint if you’re a repainter or know someone who is up here: https://flightsim.to/requests/liveries/42760/cowsda42-zk-squ-red-peak

MooCubeNZ · May 22, 2025, 12:24am

Chapter One Part 1 - New Zealand

I started my adventure at New Zealand’s southern-most airfield, NZRC, Ryans Creek on Stuart Island with NeoFly’s starter plane. As I progressed and earned money, you will see my aircraft got slightly better and better until I could afford to rent my goal aircraft, the Diamond DA42.

Chapter One is comprised of the following 14 legs and you can click “View” to see more details on each leg, plus all screenshots taken on that leg. I like that it will show the exact route I took and you can see on the flight map where the screenshots were taken.

(This table is in reverse chronological order which is a bit confusing; I’ll try to adjust for future chapters)

Date	Departure	Arrival	Aircraft	Landing rate	Distance	Flight time
18MAY25 0534Z	NZWR	NZKT	Diamond Twin Star (DA42)	-231 ft/m	90 nm	00:42	View
18MAY25 0244Z	NZAA	NZWR	Diamond Twin Star (DA42)	-299 ft/m	86 nm	00:42	View
13MAY25 1036Z	NZGB	NZAA	Diamond Twin Star (DA42)	-161 ft/m	61 nm	00:30	View
12MAY25 0915Z	NZRO	NZGB	Diamond Twin Star (DA42)	-225 ft/m	138 nm	00:57	View
11MAY25 1043Z	NZPM	NZRO	Diamond Twin Star (DA42)	-147 ft/m	181 nm	01:18	View
10MAY25 0530Z	NZNS	NZPM	Diamond Twin Star (DA42)	-295 ft/m	163 nm	01:01	View
09MAY25 0915Z	NZWN	NZNS	Cessna Skyhawk (C172)	-11 ft/m	101 nm	02:47	View
05MAY25 1044Z	NZCH	NZWN	Beechcraft G36 Bonanza (BE36)	-72 ft/m	171 nm	01:00	View
04MAY25 0542Z	NZFO	NZCH	Beechcraft G36 Bonanza (BE36)	-151 ft/m	152 nm	00:56	View
02MAY25 0534Z	NZQN	NZFO	Cessna Skyhawk (C172)	-125 ft/m	123 nm	01:05	View
30APR25 1101Z	NZMO	NZQN	Cub Crafters CC-19 XCub/NXCub (CC19)	-53 ft/m	59 nm	00:33	View
30APR25 0906Z	NZCB	NZMO	Cub Crafters CC-19 XCub/NXCub (CC19)	-191 ft/m	46 nm	00:23	View
29APR25 0924Z	NZNV	NZCB	Aveko VL-3 (VL3)	-69 ft/m	27 nm	00:16	View
29APR25 0808Z	NZRC	NZNV	Aveko VL-3 (VL3)	-159 ft/m	39 nm	00:26	View

Photo album highlights… I might try and constrain myself to just one or two images per leg just to give a flavour and not clutter the thread… we’ll see how we go

Leg 1:
First Picture of the whole adventure:

Leg 2:

Leg 3:

Leg 4:

Leg 5:

Leg 6:

Leg 7:

SmotheryVase665 · May 22, 2025, 1:27am

Hi @MooCubeNZ
Looks like you will be busy these next few months!

Just a friendy reminder that in these types of post, we ask that users only post 10 screenshots per post. Posts with a lot of images cause issues for some folks with slow internet connections or their browser on their mobile phone, so if you have more than 10 screenshots that you want to share, just put the first 10 in one post (Perhaps label it “Part 1”) and the next set in a new post (Perhaps label it “Part 2”) , etc.

Thanks!
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